In this paper, we present a fast and optimal method for the lossy encoding of object boundaries which are given as 8-connect chain codes. We approximate the boundary by a polygon ...
Fabian W. Meier, Guido M. Schuster, Aggelos K. Kat...
In this paper a novel and generic approach for model-based data clustering in a boosting framework is presented. This method uses the forward stagewise additive modeling to learn t...
Contours have been established in the biological and computer vision literature as a compact yet descriptive representation of object shape. While individual contours provide stru...
The use of video and audio features for automated annotation of audio-visual data is becoming widespread. A major limitation of many of the current methods is that the stored inde...
Kieron Messer, Josef Kittler, Barbara Levienaise-O...
Summarizing the contents of a video containing human activities is an important problem in computer vision and has important applications in automated surveillance systems. Summar...